US Constitution

December 31, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Laurence Cooper: A Christian nation?

Featured image Laurence Cooper is professor of political science at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He is the author, most recently, of Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom: Rousseau’s Philosophic Life (2023, University of Chicago Press). For the past five years or so I have studied the classics of political philosophy together with him and former Claremont Institute Chairman Bruce Sanborn weekly over lunch. Larry is our gifted teacher. I asked him »
June 22, 2012 — Steven Hayward

A Sermonette on the Administrative State

Featured image So yesterday I teed off on Nancy Pelosi’s ridiculous explanation for her 2010 remark about Obamacare that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy.”  She was far from the only liberal who said this, recognizing the inner truth of what it reveals to us about how we are actually governed by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats rather »
June 9, 2012 — John Hinderaker

Some Thoughts on Guns and Civil Rights

Featured image My son and I went to Gander Mountain today and fired off 300 rounds on my beloved Sig Sauer Mosquito Sport. One of the great advantages of a .22 pistol is that you can shoot 300 rounds and not have to worry about the cost. I shot these bullets at 21 feet: I’ve written before about the fact that relatively late in life, I became interested in firearms. In the »
May 22, 2012 — Scott Johnson

CRB: Restoring the Constitution

Featured image It must be Spring, because the Spring issue of the Claremont Review of Books (subscribe here for the absurdly low price of $19.95) has just been published and is available online to subscribers. It is an incredibly rich issue. The CRB is the flagship publication of our friends at the Claremont Institute. The mission of the institute — “to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent »